Broom-sewing device.



No. 697,320. Patented Apr. 8, I902.

T. H. BROWN.

BROOM SEWING DEVICE.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1901.)

(No Modl.)

THEODORE l'I. BROWN, OF VIROQUA, VVISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO TI'IE'NEVV BROOM AND SUPPLY COMPANY, OF VIROQUA, WISCONSIN.

BROOM-SEWING, DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,320, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed October 3, 1901. Serial No. 77,429. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: a broom irrespective of whether the same is Be it known that I, THEODORE H. BROWN, or is not provided with a metal cap or head; a subject of the King of England, residing at but as the invention possesses special utility Viroqua, in the county of Vernon and State as an auxiliaryin the manufacture of brooms 5 of 'Wisconsimhave invented certain new and made according to my former patent, No.

useful Improvements in Broom-Sewing De- 604,000, dated May 10, 1898, and also in convices, of which the following is a speoificanection with a broom fitted with a metal cap tion. or head there is shown in the drawings a This invention relates to the manufacture broom 1, fitted with a metallic cap, head, or I0 of brooms, and more especially to the means hood 2, provided in the cheeks thereof with a for binding the broom-corn or other material plurality of stitching-holes 4, through which at the head of the broom. the cord or wire is threaded in the sewing To this end the invention contemplates a operation for binding up the head portion of simple and practical broom-sewing device in the broom. r 5 the form of a temporary clamp which can be Referring particularly to the sewing device, readily applied to the broom-head and comthe same may be generally described as be prising means forgreatly facilitating the sewing in the form of a clamp essentially coming of the broom-head with cord or wire. prising the oppositely-arranged side clamp Theinvention also comprises means wheremembers 5 and 6, which are designed to re- 20 by the manufacture of brooms may be greatly spectively engage upon opposite sides of the eheapened and expedited and involves a form broom-head. In carrying out the present in of device which may be utilized with the vention one of the clamp members 5 is probroom, either with or without a metallic cap Vided at one edge thereof with a plurality of or head, and at the same time insuring the guiding-needles 7. Any number of these 25 ready threading of the cord or wire back and guiding-needles maybe employed, according forth through the broom-corn or material to to the width or character of the broom to be carry out the sewing operation. manufactured, and may be rigidly united at \Vith these and many other objects in view, one end, as at 8, to the clamp member carrywhich will more readily appear as the nature ing the same in any suitable manner. How- 30 of the invention is better understood,the same ever, an important feature of the invention consists in the novel construction, combinaresides in providing the needles 7 in the outer tion, and arrangement of parts hereinafter sides thereof with longitudinal guide-grooves more fully described, illustrated, and claimed. 9, extending the full length of the needles, so

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is that When the same are pierced through the 35 a perspective view of a broom-sewing device broom -head guide openings are provided,

embodying the present invention and shown through which the cord or Wire may be readapplied to a broom fitted with a metal broom ily threaded. Said needles are also provided head or cap. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the with pointed extremities 10 to facilitate their sewing device, illustrating the separate meminsertion through the broom-head. 4o bers thereof assembled and disconnected from The opposing clamp member 6that is, the the broom. Fig. 3 is a viewof the device with one opposite the clamp member carrying the the separate members thereof separated in a needlesis provided at one edge thereof with position to permit of a broom being placed a series of needle-holes 11, which are prefertherebetween and the members then closed ably open at one side to leave the guiding- 45 upon the broom with the guiding needles grooves 9 freely exposed and which slidably thereof piercing the broom material. interlock with the needles to provide for main- Like numerals of reference designate corretaining the same in a fixed and permanent sponding parts in the several figures of the relation during the sewing operation. drawings. In the drawings the invention is shown in I00 50 As already explained, the sewing device or its simplest aspect, and it will therefore be attachment may be utilized in connection with obvious that any suitable means may be utilized in connection with the side clamp me1n bers 5 and 6 for holding the same upon opposite sides of the broom-head after the needles have been inserted therethrough and engaged with the holes of the member 6. In working upon a broom having a cap 2 the needles are of course inserted through the stitchingholes 4:.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be re sorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Abroom-sewingdevice comprisingapair of movable laterally separable side clamp members constructed to flatly engage upon opposite sides of a broom-head, one of said members having rigid therewith a plurality of laterally-extending needles piercing the broom-head and having a slidable engagement with the opposite member, said needles being provided therein with longitudinal guiding-grooves.

2. Abroom-sewing device comprisingapair of movable laterally-separable clamp members constructed to engage upon opposite sides of a broom-head, one of said members being provided at one edge thereof with a series of holes and the opposite member also being provided at its corresponding edge with a plurality of laterally-extending longitudinallygrooved needles piercing the broomhead and engaging the said holes.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE H. BROWVN.

\Vitnesses:

H. P. PROOTOR, M. O. NICHOLS. 

